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Through observational tests of strong lensing galaxy clusters, we can test simulation derived structure predictions that follow from $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmology. The shape and centroid deviations between the total…

We use machine learning to measure the intracluster light (ICL) fractions of 177 galaxy groups and clusters identified from Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program imaging to explore how the ICL varies with the properties of its host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-08 Louisa Canepa , Sarah Brough , Mireia Montes , Nina Hatch

The vast majority of stars in galaxy groups are contained within their constituent galaxies. Some small fraction of stars is expected, however, to follow the global dark matter potential of the group. In compact groups, interactions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Denis Poliakov , Aleksandr V. Mosenkov , Noah Brosch , Shuki Koriski , R. Michael Rich

We study the Intra-Halo Stellar Component (IHSC) of Milky Way-mass systems up to galaxy clusters in the Horizon-AGN cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We identify the IHSC using an improved phase-space galaxy finder algorithm which…

We investigate the formation channels of the intracluster light (ICL) and the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in clusters at $z=0$. For this, we perform multi-resolution cosmological N-body simulations using the "Galaxy Replacement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Kyungwon Chun , Jihye Shin , Rory Smith , Jongwan Ko , Jaewon Yoo

We investigate on the role of the halo concentration in the formation of the intra-cluster light (ICL) in galaxy groups and clusters, as predicted by a state-of-art semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, coupled with a set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-16 E. Contini , S. Jeon , J. Rhee , S. Han , S. K. Yi

Hubble Space Telescope allows us to study the central surface brightness profiles for globular clusters at unprecedented detail. We have mined the HST archives to obtain 38 WFPC2 images of galactic globular clusters with adequate exposure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noyola , K. Gebhardt

Extragalactic stars within galaxy clusters contribute to the intracluster light (ICL), which is thought to be a promising tracer of the underlying dark matter (DM) distribution. In this study, we employ the TNG300 simulation to investigate…

We report the search for intracluster light in four Abell Type II/III (non-cD) galaxy clusters: Abell 801, 1234, 1553, & 1914. We find on average that these clusters contain $\sim$ 10% of their detected stellar luminosity in a diffuse…

We analyse a hydrodynamical simulation model for the recurrent heating of the central intracluster medium (ICM) by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Besides the self-gravity of the dark matter and gas components, our approach includes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

In this work, we present results for the photometric and clustering properties of galaxies that arise in a LambdaCDM hydrodynamical simulation of the local universe. The present-day distribution of matter was constructed to match the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. E. Nuza , K. Dolag , A. Saro

A large sample of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) is analysed to study the properties of simulated Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs). Following the formation and evolution of BCGs requires…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Davide Martizzi , Jimmy , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore

The amount of turbulent pressure in galaxy clusters is still debated, especially as for the impact of the dynamical state and the hydro-method used for simulations. We study the turbulent pressure fraction in the intra cluster medium of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Frederick Groth , Milena Valentini , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

Galaxy clusters are excellent probes to study the effect of environment on galaxy formation and evolution. Along with high-quality observational data, accurate cosmological simulations are required to improve our understanding of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Syeda Lammim Ahad , Yannick M. Bahé , Henk Hoekstra , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Adam Muzzin

This study investigates the evolution of the star-forming fraction ($F_{\mathrm{sf}}$) of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) at $z<0.8$, using the galaxy clusters identified from the Legacy Imaging Surveys from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-04 Shufei Liu , Hu Zou , Jinfu Gou , Weijian Guo , Niu Li , Wenxiong Li , Gaurav Singh , Haoming Song , Jipeng Sui , Xi Tan , Yunao Xiao , Jingyi Zhang , Lu Feng

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

A large fraction of the stellar mass in galaxy clusters is thought to be contained in the diffuse low surface brightness intracluster light (ICL). Being bound to the gravitational potential of the cluster rather than any individual galaxy,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Claire Burke , Chris Collins , John Stott , Matt Hilton

We present a JWST analysis of intracluster light (ICL) in XLSSC 122 at z = 1.98, currently the most distant known strong lensing galaxy cluster with an evolved member population. Using deep JWST imaging complemented by HST data and careful…

We are undertaking a program to measure the characteristics of the intracluster light (total flux, profile, color, and substructure) in a sample of 10 galaxy clusters with a range of cluster mass, morphology, and redshift. We present here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Krick , R. A. Bernstein , K. A. Pimbblet

[Abridged] We consider two clusters (A496 and Coma) that are representative of the two classes of cool-core and non-cool-core clusters. We first refer to a two-component dynamical model that ignores the contribution from the galaxy density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. De Boni , G. Bertin